Well I just consulted the Lamoriello Encyclopedia and it's not good - the next reunion move for a former Devil comes down to Pandolfo, Gomez, Rupp or Souray.

*shudders*

Gomez is probably the only one of those I wouldn't absolutely hate though most probably would. Pandolfo though, just the thought of that makes me gasp for air. I said prayers that he would be gone during the entire 09/10 season. Eventually I got my wish. Man he was just painful to watch in his last 2 seasons. How Boston has the best PK in the league with him on it I don't know. He was washed up 3 years ago.

If we're couting on Steve Sullivan to "save" our season, this team is in way worst shape then I imagined... no joke.

I don't think anyone is counting on Sullivan to "save" our season. I think Lou hopes Sullivan can make a positive contribution on some level and is betting on the players who were here on 4/2 to turn it around.

With prices on real valuable players so high, it was basically either a decision to sell on stand Pat.

I don't think anyone is counting on Sullivan to "save" our season. I think Lou hopes Sullivan can make a positive contribution on some level and is betting on the players who were here on 4/2 to turn it around.

With prices on real valuable players so high, it was basically either a decision to sell on stand Pat.

I just don't see how Sullivan can be of any use when playing in the bottom #6, cause I hope for us he won't be utilised as a top #6 forward.

Outside of the PP, he's pretty much useless, cause he's probably a slight faster then Volchenkov and with DeBoer's system, you have to skate to be effective.

We gave up a 7th round pick for him. If he can manage to contribute offensively at all without causing goals against, we improved. If not, we lost about as close to nothing as you can in hockey.

The Sullivan move itself doesn't bother me... it's the moves we've made that look like desperation moves more then anything else.

We knew from the get-go that we were going to have issues trying to score goals after Parise bolted to Minny and Sykora wasn't given a shot to prove that he can do what he did last year.

How can we can go threw a full season whitout rectifying that loss of production is beyond me. We are asking players like Clarkson to play over his head and crossing our fingers that projects like Butler will turn into something solid.

Deals like Loktionov don't happen often. You don't strike gold everytime you move a 5th for a prospect but that's the route we've been using the entire year. We have a aging roster and it would've been fun to see some type of movement by either adding a solid piece, or parting ways with a d-men so that we can add a couple of picks we "gave away" for Poni and D'Ags.

Anyways, what's done is done. I guess we'll have to wait for the draft to see if Lou has something up his sleeve cause whitout a 1st next year, this is probably our only shot at adding a solid forward in the next 2 years or else we'll just have to live with the hopes that Tedenby + Josefson will turn their game around to help us out offensively and Patty won't decline too much.

We can always get someone in UFA. Horton PLZ! I hope we can. Lou did a really good job after failure seasons of making the roster better next year. Sometimes it would even involve not bringing back UFA's for too much money. By failure's I mean even first round exits. Some of the contracts were bad, but at least he put in a good effort by signing Rolston and then trading for Arnott. Going out and getting Tallinder and Volchenkov after Paul Martin left. Not that the contracts were particularly great.

In the Summer of 2011 we didn't need to make any moves cause we were getting Parise back, and we ended 10-11 pretty damn good.

We can always get someone in UFA. Horton PLZ! I hope we can. Lou did a really good job after failure seasons of making the roster better next year. Sometimes it would even involve not bringing back UFA's for too much money. By failure's I mean even first round exits. Some of the contracts were bad, but at least he put in a good effort by signing Rolston and then trading for Arnott. Going out and getting Tallinder and Volchenkov after Paul Martin left. Not that the contracts were particularly great.

In the Summer of 2011 we didn't need to make any moves cause we were getting Parise back, and we ended 10-11 pretty damn good.

The UFA market isn't a route I want Lou to take cause it's blown in our face more then once and the market is so thin that odds are we won't be winning any derby anytime soon with the way he operates (aka overpaying a player just to land someone).

By us not having a 1st next year, it trims down our odds of making a move to land a top #6 forward by a heavy margin IMO and we all know that our prospect pool isn't all that intriguing knowing that Lou doesn't want to move a couple of key prospects.

With that said, the only real option is to hope for the best and that's about it.

The UFA market isn't a route I want Lou to take cause it's blown in our face more then once and the market is so thin that odds are we won't be winning any derby anytime soon with the way he operates (aka overpaying a player just to land someone).

By us not having a 1st next year, it trims down our odds of making a move to land a top #6 forward by a heavy margin IMO and we all know that our prospect pool isn't all that intriguing knowing that Lou doesn't want to move a couple of key prospects.

With that said, the only real option is to hope for the best and that's about it.

You and many others might disagree, but at this point I'd rather him overpay for Horton than Clarkson. That's how much I've had it with Clarkson.